This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: The Atlantic
Feb 22, 2019
by Adam Sewer
Timothy Thomas Fortune isn’t a household name, but he had a profound influence on the struggle for civil rights.
Source: National Security Archive
Feb 22, 2019
by Tom Blanton and Nate Jones
Oscar-worthy Documents on the Dark Side, from Cheyenne to Baghdad
Source: The Hill
Feb 21, 2019
"We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities," Harris said in the statement.
Source: NY Times
Feb 21, 2019
A Tufts University project seeks to make “history more visible” — from slavery to Black Lives Matter — with a map of historic African-American sites in Boston and beyond.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 21, 2019
“It’s unacceptable, and it undermines the community and the education that our children receive.”
Source: Time
Feb 21, 2019
Historians say this marks a new era of hyperpartisanship that will likely erode trust in traditionally independent law enforcement agencies.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Feb 21, 2019
The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts
Source: Time
Feb 21, 2019
The Young Lincoln statue first made its splashy debut at the New York World’s Fair in 1939.
Source: New Yorker
Feb 21, 2019
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of many black leaders of the civil-rights movement who spoke with Robert Penn Warren in a series of interviews about race and America in the sixties.
Source: USA Today
Feb 21, 2019
In one of the most extensive searches of college yearbooks ever, we found blackface and Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 21, 2019
Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded Wednesday to a now-viral video of an unaired interview in which he swore at a guest, calling him a “moron” and a “tiny brain."
Source: NPR
Feb 21, 2019
"There has never been historic preservation off our planet. It's a really difficult subject."
Source: Smithsonian.com
Feb 21, 2019
Artifacts from the National Museum of American History.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Feb 21, 2019
A recent study broke down each state’s educational standards to see whose ‘herstory’ was missing
Source: History Now
Feb 21, 2019
by Vicki L. Ruiz
Latina history is American history.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 20, 2019
The North, the South and the forgotten origins of racial separation.
Source: NY Times
Feb 20, 2019
He walked into a store and it changed civil rights. That crumbling store has come to symbolize the struggle to address the nation’s racial violence.
Source: NY Times Magazine
Feb 20, 2019
President Obama unveiled the plans for the Obama Presidential Center in May 2017. He said he wanted a place that “looked forward, not backward, and would provide a place to train future leaders.”
Source: Washington Post
Feb 20, 2019
Alfred Moore Waddell became the mayor of Wilmington, N.C., in November 1898 after leading the only successful coup on U.S. soil.
Source: Black Perspectives
Feb 20, 2019
by Tiffany Florvil
This year will mark the 30th anniversary of the annual Black History Month celebrations in Berlin, which became a fixture in the Black German community.
